COP 19 (Warsaw)

This report evaluates options for how countries that are parties to the Paris Agreement can cooperate to accelerate the implementation of REDD+. The five presented options, summarized below, are not mutually

This document compiles submissions made by several Parties and organizations, with the aim to encourage comprehensive risk management by the diffusion of information related to financial instruments and

This document compiles submissions made by several Parties and organizations, with the aim to encourage comprehensive risk management by the diffusion of information related to financial instruments and

Brazil, South Arica, India and China seek to craft a common position for climate negotiations. Meeting for the first time since the UN-sponsored climate change negotiations in Warsaw last November, ministers

Taking forward an agreed framework of the 2013 Warsaw climate conference, India has come out with a draft national policy on 'reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation' (popularly known

India has the world's highest death rate because of chronic respiratory diseases, and it has more deaths from asthma than any other nation, according to WHO
In mid-January, air pollution in Beijing was so bad that the government issued urgent health warnings and closed four major highways, prompting the panicked buying of air filters and donning of face masks. But in New Delhi, where pea-soup smog created what was by some measurements even more dangerous air, there were few signs of alarm in the country's boisterous news media, or on its effervescent Twittersphere.

A summary of the proceedings from the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 19) in Warsaw, Poland, and progress on the post 2015 sustainable development agenda and their significance for land transport.

New minister to allow field trials, reversing stand of predecessors Ramesh and Natarajan
Environment Minister Veerappa Moily is expected to cast his vote in favour of allowing genetically modified (GM) food crops in the country, overturning the position of his immediate predecessors — Jayanthi Natarajan and Jairam Ramesh. Moily’s support will pave the way for the government to submit an affidavit in the Supreme Court acquiescing to field trials of GM food crops on a conditional basis.

Does the Indian government's loud voice in international negotiations lead to results? At the recent Word Trade Organisation (WTO) meet in Bali, the Indian government went, with all guns blazing, to defend